INDUSTRY NEWS
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Inspectorio Announces Data Partnership With Open Supply Hub To Enhance Supply Chain Transparency And Responsible Sourcing
Inspectorio, the leading AI-powered SaaS platform dedicated to driving quality, compliance, and transparency across supply chains, today announced a data partnership and integration with Open Supply Hub (OS Hub), a globally trusted source for accessible supply chain data.
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DHL Group Acquires CRYOPDP From Cryoport To Strengthen 'DHL Health Logistics'3/31/2025
DHL Group ("DHL"), the world's leading logistics provider, and Cryoport, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYRX) ("Cryoport"), a global provider of supply chain solutions for the life sciences sector, are pleased to announce that DHL has acquired 100% of CRYOPDP, a leading specialty courier focused on clinical trials, biopharma, and cell and gene therapies.
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SpendHQ Launches Supplier Risk Solution To Help Companies Proactively Protect Their Global Supply Chain3/27/2025
SpendHQ, the leading Spend Intelligence and Performance Management provider, today announced the launch of its Supplier Risk Management solution that helps companies stay ahead of supply chain disruptions by proactively monitoring supplier risks across financial, geopolitical, and operational factors.
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The ProLift Rigging Company Launches Strategic Partnership With Blueprint Supply Chain To Aid Data Center Construction3/26/2025
The ProLift Rigging Company, a leading provider of solutions-based industrial construction services, announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with BluePrint Supply Chain, a trusted expert in mission-critical supply chain management services, to create the Data Center Construction Alliance—a comprehensive resource that provides end-to-end construction and logistics management for Data Center owners, contractors, and manufacturers.
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Fictiv Launches Production Manufacturing & Supply Chain Solutions To Navigate Tariff Challenges3/26/2025
Fictiv, a global leader in supply chain and manufacturing has unveiled a significant expansion of its capabilities with the introduction of its Manufacturing & Supply Chain Solutions.
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Institute For Supply Management® Expands To End-To-End Supply Chain3/18/2025
The Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) announces its strategic expansion from supply management to covering end-to-end supply chain management for its global community.
FEATURED ARTICLES
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Simplify Your IT Asset Management With A Managed Service Provider
In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, it can be difficult for organizations to create and adhere to business processes and guidelines related to their IT infrastructure. It is also becoming more challenging for organizations to make the most of their investment in IT equipment when it is not managed properly.
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Mastering Integration For Supply Chain Industries9/14/2020
Supply chain disruptions happen. From something as isolated and simple as a missed order or lost cargo to the global disruption that has been caused by COVID-19. Now that supply chains are stretched thin under the weight of the pandemic, their inherent weaknesses are showing. End-to-end visibility provided by supply chain integration is more crucial than ever if companies are to deliver the best customer experience possible, regardless of market circumstances. How can companies that want to be best equipped to face adversity and opportunity feel secure in the fact that they have mastered supply chain integration?
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Importance Of Supply Chains No Longer Taken For Granted6/15/2020
Most people seldom think about supply chains – unless they’re a part of them, such as in the IT industry where distributors, vendors and solutions providers all participate and contribute unique value. However, in recent months the awareness of and dependencies on supply chains has been a central focus worldwide.
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The 3 Keys To Developing A Sustainable Supply Chain1/6/2020
Creating sustainable supply chains is no longer a choice. It’s necessary in today’s world, where climate change, environmental disruptions, and human rights issues are real risks to smooth (and ethical) supply chain management. Waste must be reduced and, in most cases, it must be reduced significantly.
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How Defect Management Tools Improve Software Reliability11/11/2019
There is no software in the world that is 100% defect-free. Developers spend a significant amount of time tracking bugs to ensure a high-quality product. Programming bugs can be annoying and make defect management difficult across the various lines of codes. The question is, should developers spend so much time on defect management? There are tons of defect management tools out there, many of them are free of cost which mostly suits smaller teams for fixing bugs on schedule without requiring a huge investment. Larger QA teams, however, may prefer paid options since they have more robust solutions to offer.
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Performance Testing And Its Types11/7/2019
Performance testing is a type of software testing that focuses on how the system runs under certain circumstances. It determines the speed, responsiveness, and stability of a computer, network, software program or device under a workload. A performance testing company can help identify the nature or location of a software-related performance problem by highlighting where an application might fail or lag. Performance testing can also verify that a system meets the specifications claimed by its manufacturer or vendor. The process can be used to compare two or more devices or programs.
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
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Identifying New DC Operations
Omni-channel consumer demand has pushed the connection between shoppers and goods deeper into the supply chain, creating fundamental shifts in DC operations.
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Can You Meet Consumer Expectations At Any Cost?3/21/2014
There’s no prescriptive approach to establishing true, seamless, anychannel retail commerce, but experts agree on four imperatives to the equation.
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Cloud-Based Hub Simplifies Fulfillment Process For Goedeker's3/21/2014
Increased online sales volume pushed a Midwestern appliance retailer to find a way to connect its e-commerce platform to ERP software, streamlining the ordering process and decreasing shipping times.
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Mobile 2014: Best Bets And Epic Fails In Retail Mobility2/18/2014
Mobile POS races to the bottom, customer service apps reign supreme, and BYOD begins to make perfect sense.
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Fulfillment/Order Management Solutions2/18/2014
Take a look at some of the leading companies helping retailers with fulfillment and order management in today’s rapidly changing retail environment.
SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH SUPPLEMENT
Cutting-Edge Supply Chain Strategies: Omni-Channel's Next Big Thing
Consumer expectations of a seamless omni-channel experience are reinventing the supply chain.
Communication between retailers and suppliers will look very different in the near future. In order to meet the increasing demands of the consumer, control costs, and enhance collaboration, retailers and suppliers must improve processes for sharing data and extract as much value as possible from that data. The Trading Partner Interface of the Future, as conceptualized by RVCF, will achieve these goals while strengthening relationships between retailers and suppliers. By exploring the key areas of retailer-supplier communication, this report provides insights into what such a solution would entail and the business benefits it would create. Stakeholders in technology companies should take note that it is our vision that unrestricted, synchronized data sharing is the direction of the future.
FEATURED PRODUCTS
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DS enterprise (DSe) is a native Web application that manages supply and demand data from corporate systems to create easy-to-understand forecasts as well as production, delivery, and order plans.
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In today’s supply chain, the only constant is change. Disruptions, whether short-term like a forklift failure, or long-term like a natural disaster, are a fact of life. The supply chains best prepared to adapt to these disruptions will use mobile computing technology that gives them greater flexibility.
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As the direct store delivery (DSD) industry grows in sophistication, businesses need to find new, more efficient ways to respond rapidly to demands from customers, suppliers and retailers. The right technology can play a key role in helping DSD operations compete effectively.
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The market-leading Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 family of products offers a broad selection of integrated business management and accounting solutions designed for small to midsize businesses. Customers with typically 10 to 500 employees and $1 million to $100 million in annual revenue can benefit from a combination of high-performance processing, breadth of functionality, flexibility, and ease of use.
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Contact Management allows you to track and organize past, present, and future business with minimal entry time investment. Contact with potential or current customers and vendors is logged as activity from within the Contact Management application or directly from within other Down To Earth applications.
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Designed for manufacturers and 3PL providers, the iristaWarehouse warehouse management system (WMS) tracks and controls the flow of raw materials and finished goods across production and distribution operations. Utilizing RF, bar code and Auto-ID technology the system prioritizes, directs and confirms all activities, increasing quality and accuracy, while lowering costs.
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Quest introduced WTMiP. WTM32 customers could upgrade their systems to receive IP communications into their host systems as well as maintain their existing receiving system.When Symbol Technologies introduced the MC1000, a lower priced, yet powerful unit was identified as the bridge to advancing to new technology.